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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 






One Hundred Reasons 



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SHOULD BE ELECTED 



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WHICH WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO 

INDUCE EVERY SENSIBLE AND IIONEST MAN 
TO VOTE FOR IIIM. 



" An honest man's the noblest work of God." 

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PUBLTSTIEP BY 

THE AUTHOR, J. C. THOMPSON, 

No. 314)4 Walnut Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by 

J. C. THOMPSON, 

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at "Washington, D. C. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



The rights and privileges of citizenship involve 
most serious duties. The ballot should not be 
used to gratiiy caprice, prejudice, regard for per- 
sons, nor resentments. The welfare of the country 
depends upon the intelligence and prudence with 
which it is exercised ; and a preference for individ- 
uals, part}' associations, or dislike of opponents 
should not be allowed to warp our judgment. 

With nations, as with all living things, there is a 
continual change of circumstances; and inasmuch 
as part}' organization is essential to success, there 
frequently arises a necessity for the sacrifice of 
personal preferences, and a severance of associa- 
tions which have previously existed ; and there is 
always wisdom in the exercise of calm deliberation, 
in determining how our votes shall be cast. At 
the present time our Republic encounters the fear- 
ful peril before which all that have gone before it, 
have sunk. 

The growth of immense wealth has introduced 

luxury, a love of ostentation, aristocratic fashions 

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and desires ; and those corruptions and tempta- 
tions which always draw venal men to a govern- 
ment which has great pecuniary resources ; and 
now it remains to be seen if there be more moral 
and intellectual vigor in the American people, than 
have been exhibited by any other nation, at any 
time, in the world's histoiy. 

The instances are not rare in which a brave and 
intelligent people have revolted against oppression, 
and established liberal institutions; but none have 
continued permanently to resist the enervating and 
debasing; influences of £i*eat wealth. 

It appears, therefore, that a greater amountvof 
manly virtue is needed to preserve free govern- 
ment, than is required to achieve it. We have 
allowed unscrupulous partisans to involve our 
country in civil war ; and, as has ever been the 
case, to make the exigencies, animosities and re- 
sults of civil conflict, excuses for an abandonment 
of the fundamental principles of free citizenship. 
A combination of selfish and unprincipled politi- 
cians, with a military chief at their head, by pan- 
dering to the sectional prejudices of ignorant men, 
and corrupting the idle and profligate with the 
subordinate offices and money of the nation, have 
established an oligarchy, which rules the country, 



without respect to the organic law, and makes use 
of all the power, authority, influence and resources 
of the government to perpetuate its dominancy. 

The most intelligent men of all sections of the 
country, seeing the imminence of the danger to 
which our institutions are exposed, have determined 
to unite in a common effort to displace the harpies 
which are feeding upon the vitals of the Republic, and 
to restore the Federal Government, with the rights 
of the States and of citizens, on the basis of the 
Constitution ; which will secure to all classes and 
conditions of men their liberties, and equality be- 
fore the law. 

To accomplish this, and secure an effective pur- 
gation and reform in all departments of the govern- 
ment, it is necessaiy that we elevate to the office of 
President a citizen of mature 3-ears, well known to 
the people of the whole country, whose course of 
life will satisfy every one of the purity of his mo- 
tives ; and give the only certain guarantee of a 
faithful and honest administration of public affairs 

It is for the people to show that they value those 
qualities and characteristics which tend to improve- 
ment in morals, and the prosperity of all who desire 
to subsist by useful occupations ; and that they are 

not willing to sacrifice a manly independence to 
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testify an extravagant appreciation of military 
achievements. 

This contest will determine the fate of the Re- 
public. On the one hand is the magnificence, 
tinsel and glare of arms ; and on the other those 
manly virtues and genuine dignity, which truly 
enoble human nature. The gorgeous majesty and 
tyranny of empire for those who prefer subjection 
to a "strong government," is placed in opposition 
to the freedom, contentment and prosperity of a 
well-balanced constitutional Republic. 



ONE HUNDRED REASONS 

WHY 

HORACE GREELEY 
SHOULD BE ELECTED PRESIDENT. 



1. — Horace Greeley has given practical evidence 
that he understands and appreciates the principles 
upon which our Republic was constructed ; and the 
charges made against him, by those who oppose his 
election, to which they give the greatest weight, are, 
when fairly sifted, that he has asserted and sup- 
ported the fundamental ideas of the Declaration of 
Independence, and of the Constitution of the 
United States. In the abstract these principles are 
assented to by all who profess to sustain real Re- 
publicanism. 

E. g. — The right of a people who believe them- 
selves oppressed, to overthrow the power by which 
they are governed ; 

The right to the writ of habeas corpus ; 

The right to a trial by a jury of one's peers, when 
charged with crime ; 

The reserved rights of the States ; 

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A central government of limited and well defined 
powers ; the legislative, judiciary and executive 
departments, each in its proper sphere independent 
of the others. The whole intended to prevent a 
concentration of power in the hands of one indi- 
vidual, or of one body. 

Theoretically, these organic principles are very 
generally acknowledged to be correct, and essential 
to the freedom and security of every citizen; but 
in practice, the supporters of General Grant, and 
the journals advocating his re-election, regard those 
who took part in the effort to establish the Southern 
Confederacy, as out of the pale of humanity, and 
as having no rights which we are bound to respect ; 
not even those accorded by law to the worst crimi- 
nals. 

Mr. Greeley has intelligence enough to know that 
we cannot have freedom, justice and security for 
one part of the people, while another part, not 
legally charged with any offence, are regarded as 
proper subjects of partisan vengeance and oppres- 
sion. 

He believes that the true interests of the people 
of every part of the Union require the restoration 
of friendly commercial and social intercourse be- 
tween the people of the two sections. 

Spiteful and degrading disabilities cannot pro- 
mote the prosperity, happiness and improvement 
of any portion of the people. 



2. — All intelligent opponents of Horace Greeley 
acknowledge that lie is honest. It is beyond ques- 
tion that honesty is what is most needed at the head 
of the government. The introduction of a thorough 
reform in the administration of national affairs, 
would greatly reduce the public expenses, and rid 
the country of a burdensome debt in a short time. 

Washington has become an Augean stable, which 
needs the labor of a Hercules to purify it. 

Mr. Greeley has the moral courage to make his 
honesty available ; and the parasites who swarm at 
the Federal capital, are filled with malignant spite 
because they know that their plundering will cease 
when General Grant's administration ends. 



3. — The contrast of character between General 
Grant and Horace Greeley, will plainly indicate to 
every observing person the fitness of each of them 
for an important administrative office. 

At an expense to the government of many 
thousands of dollars, General Grant was educated 
in the best school of the country, and given a com- 
mission in the army. He subsequently found it 
convenient to leave the army, and gained no posi- 
tion of importance in civil life; nor did he set an 
example worthy of imitation. Horace Greeley 
commenced life in obscurity, and unaided by the 
bounty of the government, or the favor of powerful 
friends, he worked his way into notice while engaged 
in a useful occupation. He has been an earnest 



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advocate of measures tending to progress in civili- 
zation and the improvement of the people ; and he 
has established a journal which is read by a larger 
part of the American people than any other one 
published on our continent. Men of sense cannot 
fail to see which of the two is most likely to conduct 
the affairs of government in a judicious manner. 



4. — It is a stale trick for political knaves to 
charge upon their opponents the very villanies of 
which themselves are guilty, in order to divert pub- 
lic attention from their own conduct. 

It is known by all intelligent citizens that Mr. 
Greeley has been an earnest opponent of official 
corruption, and all phases of public plunder; but, 
because the Democratic party have accepted him as 
a candidate, General Grant's satellites endeavor to 
make it appear that he countenances the rascality 
of the New York " ring » robbers ; and pretend that 
it was friends of the administration only, who ex- 
posed and condemned the gross plunder of that 
municipality. It is certain, however, that men of 
influence in the Democratic party, and conservatives, 
who are neither Democrats nor Grantlings, were 
active and energetic in their efforts to convict and 
punish the members of the " ring." In fact, the 
Democratic party is so overwhelmingly strong in 
New York, that it would have been impracticable 
to drive the official rogues from their spoil without 
its aid. The friends of General Grant have made 



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no effort to unearth the greater frauds perpetrated 
in the New York Custom House, by means of which 
the national treasury is cheated of much larger 
amounts every year ; and the industry of the coun- 
try is not protected, because a considerable per- 
centage of duties is evaded. 

It is like the pickpocket crying — "stop thief!" 
for the journals supporting Washington " rings," to 
attempt to associate Horace Greeley with the muni- 
cipal plunderers of New York. 



5. — Horace Greeley has been one of the most 
earnest friends of industry, and of that large and 
useful part of the community who are willing to 
earn their subsistence and the comforts and refine- 
ments of life, by working in productive employ 
ments, rather than striving to subsist upon politics, 
or by other demoralizing pursuits: but the minions 
of the administration now assert that General 
Grant is the especial friend of protective duties, 
and Greeley their opponent. The encouragement 
which American manufactures most need now is 
an honest collection of duties, and the entire aboli 
tion of internal taxation on home products. 

It is for Congress to arrange tariff laws, and to 
repeal the taxes on industry ; but the President, if 
so inclined, may compel his subordinates to collect 
the duties, and put a stop to the frauds committed 
by importers and the agents of foreign manufac- 
turers. 



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The men who hold office under General Grant 
will never consent to a reform, which would take 
from them the rich bribes which they now receive. 
This reform is imperatively demanded, and a change 
of administration is required to effect it. 



6. — Horace Greeley has long been an earnest 
and consistent opponent of the abuses and corrup- 
tions which have brought reproach upon our govern- 
ment. When he was a representative in Congress, 
he believed tiiat the mileage paid to members was 
more than a proper consideration for the expense 
and trouble of travelling to and from the national 
capital. 

At the time this mileage was established, mem- 
bers rode to the capital on horseback ; and twenty 
miles a da3 r was deemed a fair day's ride, and a da}''s 
pay — eight dollars — was allowed for it. Steamboats 
and railroads had so cheapened and expedited 
travel, that forty cents a mile was an extravagant 
allowance for it, at the time when Mr. Greele} 7 occu- 
pied a seat in Congress ; and although no objection 
to it was manifested by the press, or the people ; 
and there was very little hope of success in an 
effort to induce members to reduce the amount of 
their emoluments, he deemed it a duty to attempt 
the reform ; and he introduced and advocated a 
bill for this purpose. It was treated with very 
little consideration ; but it showed that he did not 
shrink from the performance of a duty, when his 



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action was calculated to bring upon him the hostility 
of those with whom he was associated. 

At that time corruption and profligacy at the 
capital of the country were but in embryo. Now 
they have assumed gigantic forms, and the need of 
a resolute reformer is absolutely necessary to save 
us from perdition. 

7. — It is right and becoming for the American 
people to show that they honor intelligence and 
moral worth, in one who has never worm military 
trappings, but lias become eminent among his fel- 
low citi/cns, and gained their respect, by persever- 
ing industry in a useful occupation. 

8. — General Grant's minions are not ashamed 
to burlesque the Christian religion, in a silly attempt 
to ridicule Horace Greeley. They have published 
a picture in Harper's Weakly Journal of Civiliza- 
tion, which represents Satan, "taking him up into 
a high mountain," etc. 

Is it not time that we should have at the head of 
the government, a gentleman, having some idea of 
propriety, decency and good taste? 

It may Ise said that General Grant did not do 
this ; but it is plain that he sanctions gross viola- 
tions of decorum; for they appear every day in 
journals employed to promote his election. 

9. — TriE Republican party began with the idea 
of preventing the extension of negro slavery ; it 
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ended with the entire abolition of that institu 
tion. 

Seven years have passed since its work was 
done ; but the Bourbons of the party have not yet 
learned that it is no longer needed. They cling 
yet to the obsolete form ; and to the seven prin- 
ciples dearest to the hearts of political hunkers— 
" five loaves and two fishes." They will learn some- 
riling by telegraph next November. 



10.— It has frequently been offered as an excuse 
for the harsh and unlawful treatment of the people 
of the South that " they have not repented " of their 
resistance to the Federal armies, and their desire to 
form a separate confederacy. 

Has any effort been made to convince them that 
they were wrong in the course they pursued ? 

Artillery and bayonets crushed them, and oppres- 
sion, degradation, outrage, and insult have been im- 
posed upon them without stint ; but do such things 
convince any one that what he has done is wrong ? 

No fair argument has been addressed to them, 
intended to show that what they did was unlawful, 
or unmanly. 

When the Republican party carried the election 
of 1860, and Southern men believed that the party 
about to control the General Government would not 
respect their constitutional rights, conservative citi- 
zens from Southern States appealed to the Repub- 
lican'* members of Congress, conspicuous amongst 



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whom was Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, asking 
them to make a plain declaration that they would not 
violate the " supreme law " of the Republic; in order 
that the Union men of the South might feel confident 
that their rights would not be invaded, and assuring 
them, if this were done, that civil war would be 
avoided. They obstinately refused to make such a 
declaration. By this refusal the ultra secessionists 
were strengthened, and friends of the Union dis- 
couraged. The secessionists persisted in their de- 
claration that the Republican leaders would not 
respect the Constitution ; and no effort on the part 
of those who now support Grant was made to satisfy 
the opponents of secession in the South, that the 
party about to become dominant would obey the 
laws. 

When the war ended, by the defeat and surrender 
of the confederate armies, unconstitutional disabili- 
ties were imposed upon white men, and the elective 
franchise given to negroes; but no argument was 
addressed to the reason of Southern men to satisfy 
them that they were not right, in believing that 
under the rule of the Republican leaders the laws 
would not protect them from oppression. 

States asserted to be " free and independent " by 
the Declaration of Independence have been treated 
as subjugated provinces by General Grant's admin- 
istration ; and yet his servile journals pretend to 
expect that the degraded citizens should repent that 
they struggled for separation from such a govern- 
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As soon as the war was concluded, Horace Greeley 
endeavored to restore harmony, friendly intercourse, 
and a community of interests between the people 
of the two sections ; and until the action of such 
men shall restore States to their proper and equal 
position in the Union, and citizens to their un- 
doubted rights under the organic law of the nation, 
we cannot have an enduring peace. 

The Union of the Federal Constitution is one of 
consent, of common interests, and of equality ; but 
this General Grant and his advisers cannot under- 
stand. 

11. — Horace Greeley had intelligence enough to 
discern that our unhappy civil war was ended, when 
the Confederates accepted the terms offered them 
by General Grant, and laid down their arms. 

After more than seven years have elapsed, the 
party supporting General Grant have not discovered 
that armed hostility to the Federal Government has 
ceased ; and they insist on keeping military posses- 
sion of States declared by our ancestors, nearly a 
hundred years ago, to be " free and independent." 



12. — Every principle of free government which 
distinguishes the American Republic from the des- 
potisms of other parts of the world, is habitually 
violated by the oligarchy which has possession of 
the Federal Government. The right to the writ of 
habeas corpus ; trial by a jury of one's peers ; the 



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elective franchise; the reserved rights of the Stales. 
forming the Federal Union; the restrictions of the 
Constitution ; and the checks and balances of the 
powers of government, are all recklessly disregarded 
by the administration and its servants. 

A large number of men are undergoing penal ser- 
vitude in the penitentiary at Albany, who have not 
had a legal trial ; but have been condemned by 
sham tribunals under the control of General Grant's 
bayonets; to induce the people of Northern States 
to credit the stories invented by the panders of the 
administration, of secret organisations formed to 
commit outrages upon negroes. One of the victims 
of this heartless persecution is a respectable physi- 
cian, whose only offence was riding at night to visit 
his patients. 

Horace Greele}' has wisdom enough to know that 
a cordial reunion of the States can never be estab- 
lished by acts of tyranny and gross injustice.; and 
his election by the votes of citizens of Southern, as 
well as of Northern States, will give the best assur- 
ance of enduring peace; because it will be a peace 
based upon justice and the recognition of the lights 
of citizens of every section and of all conditions. 



13. — The depreciation of the currency during the 
war, and the increased prices of many articles, were 
accepted as a reason for a large increase of the 
salaries of government officials; but no reduction 
of these emoluments has been made during General 

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Grant's Administration ; although the currency has 
appreciated to nearly the value of gold ; and the 
wages of mechanics and laboring men have been 
much reduced. 

It is certain that the expenses of the Federal gov- 
ernment maybe greatly reduced, without detriment 
to the public service ; and inasmuch as Horace 
Greeley has been a consistent advocate of economy, 
it is certain that we shall not go wrong in placing 
him in a position in which he may aid in the work 
of reform. 

14. — Under the rule of General Grant's faction, 
elections have become the merest mockeries of the 
right of citizens to choose those who shall fill public 
positions. 

By the free use of the people's money, and the 
power of the bayonet, the combination of scamps 
and slavish sycophants, who misgovern the country, 
hope to secure a perpetual triumph over the people, 
and a continuation of the plunder by which they live 
in luxury and ostentation. Officials receiving large 
salaries, and unlimited means of corruption, are 
traversing the States, making statements to deceive 
credulous people ; and denouncing all who oppose 
their master's illegal usurpations of power. 

When an honest man is elected President, these 
shameful exhibitions will end. 

The indecorum of the interference of government 
officials in popular elections is condemned by all 
honest men, and we cannot too severely rebuke it. 



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15. — No man in America has been a more con- 
sistent friend of the Negro race than Horace Gree- 
ley ; and when he assures us that the recently en- 
franchised citizens will be benefited by restoring to 
the States of the South their constitutional rights, 
his declaration is entitled to respect ; and when his 
opinion is confirmed by that of others, who have 
labored with him for many years, to elevate the 
African in the social scale ; and who are persons 
worthy of consideration on account of ability and 
experience, there can be no longer any excuse for 
continuing the disgraceful "carpet-bag" govern- 
ments, and military despotism, in the impoverished 
Southern States, now struggling to restore their 
former prosperity. 



16. — Our country has greater material resources 
than any other on the surface of the globe ; the 
statistics of manufactures show that those persons 
who are engaged in mechanical and manufacturing 
arts, produce three dollars for every one which 
they receive in the form of wages ; and yet we find 
the people dissatisfied, because they cannot earn suf- 
ficient to afford them a decent subsistence, and the 
means of improvement. The increase of wealth is 
immense; but those who produce it, do not receive 
it ; and a very large part of it goes to enrich the foreign 
capitalists, who own our railroads, our coal mines, our 
national, State and municipal bonds, and a large part 
of the banking capital for which the American people 



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pay a heavy rate of interest. The lack of wise states- 
manship in those who manage our national affairs 
is a terrible impediment to the prosperity of the 
people. Men out of office have given much atten- 
tion to this matter; which concerns every family in 
the country ; but those who control public affairs 
are so much occupied with schemes, to fill their 
pockets at the expense of the people ; that they have 
no time to attend to things in which the welfare of 
the people is concerned. 

There is no man in this country, who has more 
earnestly advocated measures to improve the con- 
dition of the people than Horace Greeley; and his 
election to the Presidenc\ r will do more to advance the 
prosperity of the whole country than ai^ other 
movement which can be undertaken at the present 
time. 

Mr. Greeley knows what the industry of the 
country needs ; and General Grant does not. 



17. — The party questions which formerly divided 
the people no longer exist; and the animosities 
which they engendered, being of a sectional charac- 
ter, should cease. 

The aims of the Republican party were accom- 
plished, when the Southern people laid down their 
arms, and consented to the emancipation of the 
slaves. The men of brains in that party have since 
left it ; and " when the brains are out, the thing 
should die." 



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A President should now be elected who can be 
heartily supported in every State of the U^on. 



18.— If the abolition of slavery be a benefit\f 
the negroes of the Southern States, they shouh 
feel grateful to the secessionists, whose resistance 
to the Federal authority made emancipation an act 
of war. The issue in the contest of 1860 was 
merely that of opposition to the extension of sla- 
very into the territories ; and the resolutions passed 
in Congress after the battle of "Bull Run," plainly 
declare that the only object of the war was to main- 
tain the constitutional authority of the government. 
It was never pretended that the party which had 
possession of the government could legally deprive 
the slave-holders of their property ; and it was only 
as a military expedient that emancipation was jus- 
tified. During the political campaign of 1860 the 
leading Republicans constantly proclaimed that 
their party had no intention to violate the consti- 
tutional rights of the Southern people; and it was 
because it was believed that a declaration of eman- 
cipation would weaken the Confederates, that it was 
made. 

The Southern people, when they accepted the 
conditions of surrender, offered by General Grant, 
recognized the freedom of the slaves, and have 
never since shown opposition to their emancipation. 

The pretence that the negroes owe their liberty 



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to General 6rrant and his parasites, is a fraud which 
honest n-en will not tolerate. 

Mr. Greeley desired the liberation of the slaves 
w itfc>ut war, and without the invasion of the legal 
r i^nts of any citizen ; and judicious measures would 
lave accomplished what was so earnestly wished, 
without the terrible slaughter which attended Gene- 
ral Grant's operations. 

Emancipation was but a question of dollars ; and 
there was no necessity for involving the country in 
a sanguinary war to effect it. 



19. — The men who support General Grant, some 
years ago acknowledged their inability to collect a 
tax of two dollars a gallon on whiskey, and they re- 
duced it ; but it is notorious that that tax enabled a 
« ring " to monopolize the whiskey trade, and to 
make hundreds of millions of dollars by their ope- 
rations. One of the chief manipulators of the 
measures which secured this monopoly was ap- 
pointed to a first class mission by General Grant, 
and all connected with the concern have made lar«;e 
profits by it. When Horace Greeley is President 
of the United States, the reign of the infamous 
whiskey " ring," which has done more to demoralize 
public officials than any other institution in the 
country, will be at an end. 



20. — The pretended friends of the negroes assert 
that Horace Greeley has been inconsistent, inas- 



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much as he favored the right of Southern States to 
leave the Union, if they were not satisfied in it. 
They say that, if those States had been allowed to 
secede, the negroes would have been kept in slavery. 
How much force there is in this assertion, will be 
perceived, when we consider the fact that a third 
part of the money expended for war operations, 
would have paid for the slaves and the expense of 
removing them to free States. The 600,000 men 
whose lives were sacrificed in the sanguinary strug- 
gle, would have continued to labor in employments, 
which would have increased the capital of the coun- 
try to an incalculable extent ; and the Constitution 
would have been saved ; for without war, no one 
would have dared to assail it. 

The abolition of slavery without bloodshed, 
would have been a glory to our country, which men 
of enlarged views can appreciate ; but the shoddy 
contractors, the internal revenue officials, and the 
carpet-bag scullions, would have been compelled to 
earn their subsistence by more honest occupations. 

That is what is the matter. 



21. — When mechanics and laboring men are em- 
ployed to work for the government, they are paid 
only for the time actually occupied by their labor, 
unless they are willing to do some mean partisan 
villany, which is considered an equivalent for their 
wages. But when " Cabinet Ministers » go on elec- 
tioneering tours, making speeches to delude simple 



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minded persons with the idea of the glory of Gene- 
ral Grant, their pay is not stopped. 

The people are required to pay twenty-five dol- 
lars a day for the eloquence of each of these dig- 
nified gentlemen, while honest men toil in useful 
occupations for a tenth part of that sum per diem. 

It is time to institute reform. 



22. — Horace Greeley had intelligence enough to 
comprehend the nature of the dangers to civil 
liberty which the war involved ; and it is manifest 
that General Grant, and those who support him 
never had brains enough to perceive that inflicting 
vindictive cruelties upon the people of the revolted 
States, necessarity changed the character of our 
free Republic, and reduced the people of the whole 
country, north, as well as south, to subjection to 
the central power at Washington. 

It is not tenderness toward the oppressed people 
of the South, which has caused the leading men of 
the Republican party to oppose the arrogance of 
General Grant ; but a determination to maintain 
their own freedom. 



23. — Horace Greeley has shown unusual moral 
courage, in advocating principles which he believed 
to be right, when they were not popular. 

It is an easy thing to sustain measures and prin- 
ciples which the majority of the people favor, for 
nothing is to be lost by doing what pleases those 



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around us; but only persons of more than ordinary 
moral vigor, will encounter the odium which is 
usually heaped upon those who undertake the work 
of educating an unwilling community in new ideas, 
and expelling the prejudices which are in their 
minds. 

There was more manliness shown by those who 
asserted the rights of all races, thirty years ago, 
than has been needed to gain fame and fortune for 
military heroes. 



24. — It is time to check the "rings," which are 
absorbing the public lands. During General Grant's 
administration, a large part of the public domain — 
the property of the people — has been given to cor- 
porations, formed by the unprincipled men who 
gather at the national capital. 

This wholesale absorption of the most valuable 
property of the nation, has become alarming. The 
great majority of the people do not own an acre, 
nor a dwelling, while fortunes, told by millions, are 
accumulated b} T the wire-workers, who manage 
affairs at Washington. 

An infusion of honesty in our public affairs 
would be wholesome. 



25. — The nomination of Horace Greeley was 
made at Cincinnati and at Baltimore, without the 
aid of any party " ring," without any pledges on 
his part to favor any of those who took part in it. 
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In a speech at Portland, Mr. Greeley said : 
" No person has ever yet made the fact that he 
purposed to support, or actually did support my 
nomination, whether at Cincinnati, at Baltimore, or 
in the action which resulted in sending delegates to 
either convention, the basis of a claim to office at 
my hand. No one who favored my nomination 
before either convention, or at either convention, 
has sought office at my hands, either for himself or 
an} 7 " one else ; nor has any one suggested to me 
that I might strengthen myself as a candidate by 
promising to appoint any one to any important 
office whatever. In a very few instances — less than 
a dozen, I am sure — certain of the smaller fry of 
politicians have, since my double nomination, hinted 
to me by letter that I might increase my chance of 
election by promising a post office or some other 
place to my volunteer correspondents respectively. 
I have not usually responded to these overtures, 
but I now give a general notice that, should I be 
elected, I will consider the claims of these untimely 
aspirants after those of the more modest and reti- 
cent shall have been fully satisfied." 



26. — Less than fifty years ago the expenses of 
the Federal Government were less than thirteen 
million dollars a year ; although we were building 
a navy, protecting an extensive frontier, and com- 
pelling even barbarous nations to respect the Ameri- 
can flag. Now, without any war on our hands, 



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except what is necessary to control political parties 
in Southern States, the expenses of that government 
are counted by hundreds of millions. Apart from 
interest on the public debt, and pensions to sol- 
diers, the amount of money disbursed is enormous ; 
and plainly indicates gross profligacy in the man- 
agement of public affairs. The handling of so vast 
an amount of money as passes tli rough the hands 
of government officials every 3 T ear, is calculated to 
tempt men from useful occupations; and the large 
number of offices in which men receive more pay 
than a skilful mechanic can earn, seduces many 
from more obscure labor, and makes political para- 
sites of them. 

Reform is needed to check the fearful demoraliza- 
tion which has resulted from office-hunting, and 
office-huckstering; which have debauched myriads 
of the more intelligent part of the people. 



2*7. — There is no department of business in 
which men in this country engage, which for its 
successful prosecution, without resort to depraved, 
venal, and demoralizing efforts, requires a higher 
order of intellect, than that in which Horace 
Greeley has been occupied since he entered, as an 
obscure youth, into the struggle for subsistence. 

By an honorable course, which challenges the 
acknowledgment of his integrity from his op- 
ponents, he has gained the highest reputation as an 
editor; and has established a journal which is 



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probably read b} r a greater number of people, than 
is any other one on our continent. 

The judgment and ability which has secured 
success in this, warrants the belief that he will not 
fail in a much higher position. 



28. — Prejudice is the great enemy of progress 
in civilization ; and more true courage is needed to 
combat the passions, resentments, and ignorance of 
uncultured minds, than is needed to win blood- 
stained honors on fields of battle. 

A Luther, a Galileo, or a Franklin, is worth 
to mankind more than a shipload of heroes in 
epaulettes. 



29. — When Horace Greeley becomes President 
of the United States, such reptiles as General But- 
ler and Colonel Forney, will no longer be permitted 
to bring shame and disgrace on our country. 



30. — One of the most disgraceful incidents in the 
history of our country is keeping military occupa- 
tion of the subjected Southern States, for more than 
seven years after they had laid down their arms, 
on the strength of the assurance that those engaged 
in the war should not be molested ; and sending 
parasites to plunder them and reduce them to bank- 
ruptcy, acid's to the shame which must be attached 
to the Federal Government, for this unjust and in- 



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human treatment of the Southern people, against 
whom no lesral charge of crime has been made. 

Had the counsels of Horace Greeley been heeded, 
this dark spot in our history would not have ap- 
peared. 



31. — We have had four years of government, with 
General Grant's military notions of managing af- 
fairs, without respect for laws which interfere with 
the designs of the administration. During this time 
rich men have been growing richer, and more active 
in efforts to secure monopolies in business, and 
corporate privileges. Men who depend upon the 
work of their hands for subsistence have found 
their means diminishing, and the prospect of per- 
sonal independence vanishing before them. Dis- 
content among those who toil for wages has in- 
creased ; and it is manifest to many that there is 
something wrong in the working of our affairs. 

It is evident, that General Grant, and those who 
counsel him, have not the ability to comprehend 
"the situation ;" and the sooner we get a statesman 
of enlarged views to direct the administration of 
national ailairs, the better it will be for the people. 



32.— So debased is the tone of morality at Wash- 
ington, that government officials proclaim it, as a 
matter deserving the gratitude of the people, that 
they have paid a part of the public debt. They 
have taken an immense amount of money from the 
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people, and because they did not steal the whole of 
it, they ask us to alow them to continue the imposi- 
tion of taxes upon the industry of the country, and 
their audacious plunder of the public treasury. 

Something should be done to teach these vermin 
to understand that the government was not estab- 
lished for the mere purpose of fattening dishonest 
politicians. 



33 — The people of the South have accepted Mr. 
Greeley, as a candidate, without any promise from 
him of favor, in consequence of the support which 
they will give him. 

In his speech at Portland, Aug. 14th, Mr. Greeley 
said : 

"Those adverse to me ask what pledges I have 
given to those lately hostile to the Union to secure 
their favor and support. I answer : No man or 
woman in all the South ever asked of me, whether 
directly or through another, any other pledge than 
is given in all my acts and words from the hour of 
Lee's surrender down to this moment. No South- 
ern man has ever hinted to me an expectation, hope, 
or wish that the rebel debt, whether Confederate or 
State, should be assumed or paid by # the Union, 
and no Southern man who could be elected to a 
Legislature or made Colonel of a militia regiment, 
ever suggested the pensioning of rebel soldiers or 
any of them, even as a remote possibility. All who 
nominated me are perfectly aware that 1 had upheld 



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and justified Federal legislation to suppress the 
Ku-Klux conspiracy and outrages, though I had 
long ago insisted as strenuously as I now do that 
complete amnesty and a genuine oblivion of the 
bloody, hateful past would do more for the suppres- 
sion and utter extinction of such outrages than all the 
force bills and suspension of habeas corpus ever de- 
vised by man. Wrong and crime must be suppressed 
and punished, but far wiser and nobler is the legis- 
lation, the policy, by which the}'' are prevented." 



"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates and men decay." 

34. — A moral canker is eating into the vitals of 
the nation, and it is necessary to apply the actual 
cautery for its removal. Unless something be done 
to encourage virtue, honesty, industry and moral 
energy, our Republic will become a stench in the 
nostrils. The substantial improvement of the use- 
ful mass of the people, is of more importance than 
the glorification of a thousand military aspirants. 



35. — The despicable attempt of some of the ad- 
ministration journals to bring odium and ridicule 
upon Horace Greeley, by means of pictures, as well 
as malicious misrepresentations, and distortions of 
what he has said and done, deserves the rebuke of 
all decent people. Harper's Weakly is most promi- 
nent amongst those engaged in this unclean work. 
It knows how to present a lie to the view of every 



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one who sees its illustrations ; and it is utterly 
unscrupulous with regard to the impressions which 
it makes upon the minds of the people. 

An administration which will use such instrumen- 
talities to defame an opponent, can not have the 
respect of fair-minded people. 

Honorable men do not fight with soiled weapons. 



36. — It is not right to keep alive the feelings 
generated by civil war. 

War is a great evil. It destroys the substance, 
as well as the lives of the people; and it causes men 
to disregard the rights of citizens and the teachings 
of humanity and benevolence. It creates a dislike 
of useful labor ; and superinduces indolence and 
demoralization. 

Civil war is the greatest misfortune that can come 
upon a nation. It has destroyed the most liberal 
governments which have existed in the world. 



37. — The notorious profligacy of the charlatans 
who hold office under the administration, is ac- 
knowledged by General Grant in his recognition of 
the necessity for " civil service reform ; " but the 
measures adopted to effect it, have proved a broad 
farce. He retains in his cabinet, men who are known 
to be compromised in schemes of plunder. 

His reform is illustrated by the old proverb of 
setting " the cats to guard the cream pots : " and 
the necessity for an entire change of administration, 
by the election of a man in whose integrity and 



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intelligence the people have confidence, is too pal- 
pable to be disputed. 



38. — The Chief Magistrate of a great republic 
should set an example to the people of purity, 
simplicity and decorum, in his habits and manners. 
He should not attempt to imitate the nobility and 
royalty of monarchical countries, in their pleasures, 
luxuries and equipages. He should not indulge 
inordinately in the use of wine and strong drink; 
nor should he smoke foreign cigars, which cost 
forty dollars a hundred. 

Mr. Greeley is a person of unostentatious deport- 
ment and temperate habits ; truly republican in 
manners ; and of unexceptionable private character. 
His opponents ridicule him on account of his un- 
assuming disposition ; and all acknowledge his moral 
worth. 

39. — Our country produces the most valuable 
articles of commerce, cotton, grain, iron, coal, 
tobacco and gold. But England, France and Ger- 
many make more profit out of our products than 
we do. They have men of intelligence and experience 
to manage their affairs : and we have given the 
control of ours to heroes in military trappings. 

It is quite time that we should have men of brains 
at the head of the General Government. 



40. — It is not necessary to resort to appeals to 



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ignorant prejudices, and to clap-trap devices to gain 
favor for Horace Greeley. He is not actuated by 
bigoted feelings, nor sectarian resentments ; and 
would frown upon any effort to secure votes for 
him by demagogical devices. 

One of the most malignant of the journals working 
in the interest of General Grant, Harper's Weakly, 
is stongly anti-Catholic in sentiment: and b}' means 
of very badly executed caricatures, it endeavors to 
excite the antipathy of Protestants against Mr. 
Greeley. 

Only a desperate cause can need such shameless 
expedients. 

41. — Horace Greeley is a man who understands 
the value of peace. His reputation has no stain 
of blood upon it ; his escutcheon has no Bents in 
it. 



42. — Intimations have repeatedly been given that 
the statements of the condition of the public debt, 
which are periodically published by the Treasury 
Department, are deceptive, and assertions to that 
effect have been boldly made by persons whose de- 
clarations should not be disregarded. There is 
abundant circumstantial evidence to cause serious 
doubts concerning the correctness with which busi- 
ness is managed, and accounts kept in that institu- 
tion. 

It would be an easy matter to put an end to sus- 



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picions by instituting an examination by disinter- 
ested persons, who have the confidence of the peo- 
ple. But the adherents of General Grant appear to 
dislike any investigations which are not conducted 
by their own friends. 

The immense burthen imposed upon the people 
by the war is sufficiently inconvenient, without add- 
ing to its gravity a doubt as to the manner in which 
the money wrung from them by indirect taxation is 
honestly disbursed. 

The accounts of the Treasury should be accessible 
to all who chose to examine them, and the property 
in that department should be subjected to the scru- 
tiny of persons who would fairly represent its value. 

The National Treasury has become an unwieldy 
and a cloudy affair, in which an immense amount 
of villany may be concealed. 

There is no hope of a complete revealing of the 
secrets of the nation's inoney-chests, but in displac- 
ing General Grant's administration by electing an 
honest man to the Presidency. 



43. — Measures to secure the commercial and 
financial independence of our country are essential 
to our future prosperity. A hundred years ago our 
grandfathers rebelled against their government 
rather than pay a tax on " tea and paper and paint- 
ers' colors," now the American people pay to the 
capitalists of England a tribute told by hundreds 
of millions of dollars annually; and it is rapidly 



36 

increasing. We cannot ride on a railroad, nor buy a 
ton of coal, a piece of beef or bacon, nor a barrel of 
flour, without paying tribute to English bondhold- 
ers, and their possession of the most productive 
property in this country is alarmingly increasing. 

This is a subject much beyond the capacity of 
General Grant, his cabinet, and his supporters in 
Congress. 

We must look to statesmen of far greater ability 
to relieve us from the mortifying position we occupy 
before the world, as the great debtor nation. 

44. — The administration and its servants ac- 
knowledge the necessity for " civil service reform,'' 
by pretending to introduce it ; but they make them- 
selves ridiculous by keeping in office those who 
most need reforming out of it. 

If General Grant and the members of his Cabinet 
would dismiss themselves ; on account of manifest 
incapability and unworthiness, they would be re- 
garded as true patriots ; but the}' have not the mag- 
nanimity to do so proper an act. 

The people must undertake the work of reform 
themselves, and not be deluded with the idea that 
it is only the subordinates in office who need it. 
Jt is most wanted where the examples of profligacy 
are most pernicious. 



45. — When the votes of the people are wanted, 
General Grant is represented by his hireling jour- 
nals as being the especial friend of the poor man ; 
but in official and personal intercourse, the great 
millionaires engage his time and attention. 

Mr. Greeley by example and by precept shows 
what a citizen of a Republic should be ; and men of 
brains will have no difficulty in choosing; between 
the two candidates. 



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46. — The organs of the administration excuse the 
continuation of the illegally imposed "disabilities " 
of white men in the South, by saying that now, but 
a few are disfranchised 

It is well known however, that in that few are the 
men, who on account of their abilit} r and experience, 
are deemed most proper to represent the people in 
legislative bodies, ami administrative offices. The 
citizens therefore are not allowed to elect those 
they would choose, if no such restriction pre- 
vailed. 

The truth is that the minions surrounding General 
Grant are afraid of what these men might tell, if 
they should again get into Congress: and their fears 
are more potent than their regard for constitutional 
rights. 

None of those politically degraded below t he- 
level of their former slaves, have been legally pros- 
ecuted for any offence against the government. 
Respect for the fundamental law of the Republic is 
a manly feeling: but fear of a few unfortunate 
political opponents is cowardly. 

The American people generally do not share the 
latter feeling: and they should be careful to re- 
buke it. 

47.— The amount of money handled by public 
officials is so vast, that there can be but little hope 
of an honest management of it, until the introduc- 
tion of rigid economy in expenses, and a better 
financial system shall greatly reduce the disburse- 
ments ; and diminish the temptations, which lead 
men of weak virtue to strive to get into positions 
which will enable them to manipulate the millions 
collected and expended. 

General Grant appointed to the office of Secretary 



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of the Treasury, a person who could not legally 
hold it: and when informed of this fact, and of the 
indisposition of Congress to strain the law to suit 
him, he declared his willingness to sacrifice millions 
of dollars, to get into the position. 

Intelligent men cannot fail to see the absolute 
necessity for a reform ; winch can only be accom- 
plished by the election to the office of President, of 
a man whose conduct during his whole life has 
shown integrity ; and who will be cordially sustained 
by all right-minded citizens. 



48. — The Post Office is misused to a great extent 
to help the cause of the administration; and there 
is much reason to believe that the reckless managers 
of General Grant's party, will deplete the National 
Treasury, rather than fail to carry the election. If 
they can keep possession of the Executive Depart- 
ment, and of the House of Representatives, they 
can sa}^, as did Lady Macbeth : 

"What need we fear; 
When none dure call our power to account?" 

Money has become a potent instrumentality in 
the hands of the leaders of a desperate party ; and 
intelligent and courageous men should be careful 
that it be not used by millions, to defeat the free 
choice of a President. 



49. — The tone of morality, which pervades the 
"rings," which are laboring to secure the re-elec- 
tion of General Grant, is indicated by the following- 
extract from an article in the Philadelphia Press; 
one of the most ardent supporters of the adminis- 
tration. 

" Indeed, it can be safely asserted that the Trea- 
sury Ring accumulates not less than $100,000 per 



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annum by the uses to which they put balances of 
public money in the hands of the State Treasurer." 
The Press does not expose the work of the 
" rings" which operate at the national capital. 
Their misdeeds will not be fully brought to light 
until the election of Horace Greeley shall supply a 
cathartic ; which will purge the great temple of 
Mammon. 

50. — We have long flattered ourselves that in the 
progress of civilization and intelligence, we are in 
advance of all other nations; but if we allow coze- 
ning demagogues to induce us to vote our sectional 
prejudices, at the ballot box; and sacrifice the 
constitutional liberty, won for us at such vast cost, 
by our ancestors, to show that we hate Southern 
Rebels ; what claim can we have to enlighten- 
ment ? 

If we show that we value our rights and our 
prosperity; and have sense enough to resist the 
acts of crafty political leaders and venal journals ; 
and elect to the Chief Magistracy of the nation a 
peaceful citizen ; who has won reputation in a use- 
ful occupation ; we shall command the admiration 
of liberal minded men in all parts of the world ; and 
set an encouraging example to less favored com- 
munities. 



51. Government is essential to civilization ; but 

the selfishness of human nature causes those who 
have power independent of the people, to use it to 
oratifv their ambition, avarice, and love of ostenta- 
tion ; and the design of the " Republican form of gov- 
ernment " is to prevent the evils which result from 
this selfishness. Experience, however, has proved 
that all the advantages to be expected from the re- 



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publican system, are lost when combinations of 
mercenary men use the power, influence and money 
of a Republic, to deceive the people ; and defeat their 
free choice of the men who are to till official posi- 
tions. 

It has invariably been found that when a Republic 
grows rich, partisan demagogues create contentions, 
animosities and civil wars, to excite the passions of 
the people; and prevent their unprejudiced observa- 
tion of the acts of those who manage public affairs. 
By such means crafty politicians manage to exer- 
cise as much power, and to take from the people as 
much of the substance which their labor produces, 
as do the kings and nobles under monarchical in- 
stitutions. 

Our country has been for some years under the 
control of an organization of unscrupulous men, 
who live on politics ; and the public treasury is 
plundered by them to an enormous extent. 

So gross have their depredations become, and so 
audacious their efforts to hold on to the power they 
have abused, that all the most worthy men of the 
party which gave them possession of public offices, 
have withdrawn their support of them ; and now 
warn the people of the rujai which will come upon 
us, if they be not expelled trom the places they have 
so shamefully misused. 

If they be allowed to keep control of the govern- 
ment the worst evils of despotism will come 
upon us. 



52. — All the men of great moral and intellectual 
worth in the Republican party, now oppose the re- 
election of General Grant ; while the life-long op- 
ponents of Horace Greeley are willing to accept him 
as a Candidate for the Presidency ; in order to save 
the Constitution. 



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Such facts are sufficiently significant to satisfv 
sensible men, with regard to the course they should 
pursue in this contest. 



53. — When Louis Napoleon had control of the 
army, the treasures and the civil offices of the 
French Empire, an election (plebiscitum) was held; 
and an overwhelming majority of. votes sustained 
him; but when his unlucky invasion of Prussia de- 
prived him of power, by universal consent he be- 
came an exile. 

General Grant depends upon the same means to 
carry the Presidential election; and if he be de- 
feated, among the venal horde who now strive to 
keep him in power, there will not be found any 

"So poor as do him reverence." 

Those who support Horace Greeley, do so because 
they are satisfied that his election will save the 
country from impending evils; and that he will 
faithfully perform the work of the high office. 

54. The organs of the administration have too 

much to say concerning assertions which have been 
made with regard to General Grant's intemperate 
habils. The issues depending upon the approach- 
ing election are of too great importance to be 
smothered by animated controversies about the 
personal habits of a candidate. If these indignant 
journals can bring ten thousand witnesses to prove 
that their master never smelled whiskey in his life, 
all their testimony will not mitigate his arrogant 
assumptions of unconstitutional power; and his 
giving countenance and encouragement to persons 
in official positions who have formed " rings " and 
plundered the public treasury. The stale devices 
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of the panders of General Grant, will not deceive 
men of brains. The people would rather hear 
some argument as to the propriety of refusing to 
place upon committees, to investigate the conduct 
of some high dignitaries, the men who asked for 
the investigations, and who were prepared to show 
ugly facts. 

It is as President, that the people claim the right 
to criticise his acts, and those of his subordinates, 
and they do not care to get into angry disputes 
about the quantity of strong liquors he may im- 
bibe. Cool and penetrating inquiry is what we 
want. 



55. — Magnificent edifices are agreeable things 
to look upon ; but the propriety of taxing the peo- 
ple many millions of dollars annually to erect im- 
posing buildings, and to furnish fat "jobs " for con- 
tractors is not quite apparent. When the country 
is deeply in debt, and the industry of the people 
hampered to pay interest to foreign bondholders, 
economy should be practised in every department of 
the government, even if the business of courts and 
post offices be transacted in plain buildings. 

The ornnmental part of our government is fear- 
fully expensive, and terribly demoralizing, and it is 
quite time that we should recognize the fact that 
unassuming probity is more to be desired than 
meretricious splendor. 



56. — Hundreds of thousands of lives were sacri- 
ficed to emancipate the slaves in Southern States, 
and to give them the rights of citizens; but so far 
as the right to the ballot is concerned, it has proved 
a mockery. General Grant's arbitrary rule in the 
South has made the negroes political slaves ; and, 



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until a President who will respect the Constitution 
be inaugurated, "civil rights " in the South will be 
of but little value to the emancipated citizens. 



51. — The testimony of men of all parties, and 
facts which speak with more force than any other 
evidence, make it manifest that the men who now 
have possession of the Federal Government, are as 
unblushingly corrupt as any combination of char- 
latans that ever undertook to rule a nation. Their 
impudence is their chief characteristic; and this is 
most forcibly illustrated in their attempt to con- 
vince the people that the} 7 desire a reform of the 
civil service; which, if carried into effect, "would 
expel them from the offices they occupy. One of 
their organs speaking of the "civil service reform," 
says: "This is, we trust, the beginning of an 
honest and earnest reform, which will be allowed to 
have a lair and full trial." Why did these reformers 
wait until a Presidential election is near at hand to 
begin >this work'/ and why do they now ask the 
people to allow their scheme of reformation to have 
"a fair and full trial?" 

It is beyond question that reform is needed ; but 
the essential feature which is required to make it 
effective, is not contained in General Grant's mea- 
sure. What is imperatively demanded is honesty. 
Without this the ability to perform the duties of 
an office will avail but little, even if competitive 
examination should fairly determine the relative 
merits of candidates. 

There is no hope of a real and thorough clean- 
sing of the unhealthy places about the capital; but 
in ejecting the unclean things entirely. Oceans of 
carbolic arid would not purify the "rings" which 
have their centre at the White House. 



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58. — The devices by which the retainers of Gen- 
eral Grant hope to delude unsophisticated people, 
are not new. They boldly assert that Horace 
Greeley was never favorable to the emancipation 
of the slaves, that he was a secessionist, and that 
he is on good terras with the New York Tammany 
"ring." All this is intended to irritate those who 
support the Cincinnati ticket, and cause them to 
defend their candidates, so that attention will be 
drawn away from the palpable villanies of the 
officials at Washington. 

Dispassionate observation of the conduct of those 
who manage public affairs is what they most fear, 
and any trick which will divert attention from their 
operations, and excite the public mind, will tend to 
prevent a deliberate scrutiny of their management 
of the public business, and the shameless defalca- 
tions which they have so long hidden from the 
people. There will be no honesty in the transac- 
tions of government' affairs until a change of ad- 
ministration shall unveil the dark operations, which 
the servants of the dominant party so much desire 
to conceal. 

59. — In monarchical countries it is considered 
improper to censure the sovereign for any objec- 
tionable or illegal act which may be committed by 
authority of the government; for the ministers are 
held responsible for all tiiat is done, and the organs 
of General'. Grant's administration, claim for him 
the same immunity. They affect to regard it as 
indecorous to speak of the notorious indiscretions 
and unlawful acts of the President, in a tone of 
reproof. The difference between our " Republican 
form of government" and that of the despotisms 
of Europe, is not recognized bij tlies'e par-aaitea. In 



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the latter, the person of the King is sacred, and the 
responsible ruler is the Prime Minister; but under 
our system, the President is the Prime Minister, and 
should be held responsible for all his acts. There 
is no " divine right " here, and the President is the 
servant of the people ; and it is the duty of every 
intelligent citizen to give his opinion, in plain 
language, of the conduct of the Chief Magistrate 
of the Republic. It is important that every one 
should be taught to know that beyond the power 
conferred by the Constitution, the President has no 
more authority than the humblest citizen. 

A great General is not required to become a 
servant; ^ut anyone who accepts the office of Pre- 
sident, does assume such a position, and has no 
right to complain if his masters do not approve 
his conduct. 

Those who propose to elect Horace Greeley" to 
the office of President, do not intend to confer 
royal prerogatives upon him ; but to hold him to a 
rigid responsibility' for the manner in which he 
shall discharge his ministerial duties. 



60. — Horace Greeley is supported by all who 
desire a reduction of the expenses of the govern- 
ment, and the re-establishment of a cordial Union 
of the States. 

General Grant is supported only by those who 
have a pecuniary interest in continuing his admini- 
stration. , 

61. — The homoeopathic principle is not good in 
polities ; and the profligate rings which have con- 
gested about the Federal capital, cannot be expur- 
gated by administering more corruption. 

Grantism, even in small doses, will not cure the 



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putrid ulcers, which have become so offensive to 
the people. Powerful caustic, and drastic cathar- 
tics, are needed to purify the political system. A 
prescription from Dr. Greeley will produce admira- 
ble results. 

62. — To prevent civil war and the consequent 
slaughter of a large portion of the people of our 
country ; to prevent an excuse for the suspension 
of all civil rights, and the establishment of despo- 
tic power by military aspirants; and to thoroughly 
test the value of the Union, to every State, Horace 
Greeley expressed a willingness to allow South Ca- 
rolina, and other discontented States, « to try the 
experiment of secession. He believed, as did other 
able men, that if no threats, nor coercion were used 
toward the South, the people of States, which 
might feel disposed to secede, would in a little time 
find separation so great a disadvantage, and the 
Union so great a benefit to them, that they would 
be willing to sacrifice the institution of slavery in 
order to be again re-united. 

For candidly expressing this desire, which would 
have settled our sectional troubles, without blood- 
shed, and without the loss of civil liberty, General 
Grant's hounds, 

''Tray, Blanche arul Sweetheart, 
Little dugs and all," 

have opened on Mr. Greeley. They denounce him 
as a secessionist, and strain language to find epi- 
thets bad enough to heap on him. 

If the principles of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence, and of the Constitution of the United States 
be correct, Mr. Greeley was right in what he ut- 
tered ; but if those principles, so much respected 
by the American people, be wrong, and General 



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Grant's ideas of military dictation be right, Mr. 
Greeley should be censured. 

The people will decide between free institutions, 
and the despotism which needs myriads of unscru- 
pulous minions to sustain it. 

63. — The means by which the founders of our 
government designed to secure to the people the 
control of public affairs, was the election — that is 
the choosing of those who shall hold the most im- 
portant offices. It was not intended that those who 
hold offices should dictate to the people the candi- 
dates to whom they shall give their votes ; nor that 
the influence of officials, and the patronage and 
money of the government, should be used to defeat 
a free choice by those entitled to the ballot. 

The interference of public servants in elections, 
is a gross outrage upon the rights of citizens ; and 
should be rebuked in such a manner that it will not 
be repeated. 

Office holders and their hirelings should not be 
allowed to pollute the ballot-box; nor to coerce the 
votes of the humblest citizens. 



64. — The intelligent men of every State in the 
Union support Horace Greeley. Only the merce- 
nary and bigoted men of Northern States, and car- 
oet-baggers in the South, sustain General Grant. 



65. — It requires an unusual amount of moral 
courage to enable men wiio have earnestly sup- 
ported the leaders of a political party, to acknow- 
ledge that those leaders have betrayed them ; and 
made use of the powers of government to accom- 
plish selfish and ambitious objects; even when proofs 
of the most indisputable character are before their 



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eyes. It is, however, the most important duty of 
a citizen to endeavor by calm and deliberate reflec- 
tion, to rid his mind of prejudices; and to look 
unpalatable facts full in the face. 

When the journals which receive their pabulum 
from the administration, denounce as traitors and 
renegades, the men most honored by the Republi- 
can party, it is manifest that " the powers that be " 
fear that the people will listen to their statements, 
and be influenced by them. Those statesmen whose 
names are identified with the Republican party from 
its origin, now tell us that a great mistake was 
made in electing General Grant to the Presidency; 
and they now urge us to work earnestly to prevent 
the perpetuation of a centralized despotism. 

Prejudice is the great enemy of freedom and of 
the progress of liberal principles ; and sensible men 
should appreciate the magnanimity of those who 
founded the party now dominant, and now warn 
the people of the danger to be apprehended from a 
continuance of its power. 

66. — A considerable sum of public money has 
been paid for Confederate documents, to be used to 
aid General Grant's re-election. Some of them, of 
doubtful authenticity, have been published, and 
circulated extensively ; but no publication of the 
correspondence concerning the exchange of Union 
prisoners, long held in Confederate prisons, has 
been made by the supporters of the administra- 
tion. This correspondence, if it has not been fur- 
tively destroyed, may be found at the War Depart- 
ment ; and it is but justice that the pople should 
know why the sick and wounded soldiers of the 
Federal Army were not removed from the prisons 
in which they were perishing, when the Confede- 
rates desired their exchange. 



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This is a matter of much more consequence to 
the friends of the Union soldiers, than the things 
which General Grant's minions are so ready to 
publish. 

Let us have light ! 

" There's none ever feared that the truth should be heard, 
But he whom the truth would indict." 

If Horace Greeley be elected President, many 
long-hidden villanies may be brought to light ; and 
the people will know better who are worthy of their 
confidence. 



67. — The pretence that the men who volunteered, 
when called upon to protect the American flag, 
admire and love General Grant, is a poorly devised 
trick to get the votes of unthinking men. 

The bloodiest page in the history of our country 
is that which records General Grant's march to 
Richmond. The vast slaughter of the troops under 
his command, by the greatly inferior and poorly 
supplied army of the Confederates, had in it nothing 
to excite admiration ;■ and although all rejoiced, 
when the terrible strife was ended, men of military 
judgment and experience believe that victory could 
have been won over the exhausted foe, at a much 
smaller sacrifice of the lives of the soldiers. 

It has been figuratively said that in our day, 
bayonets think; and those carried by the citizen 
soldier, who does not make a trade of war, will not 
become enthusiastic in the service of a General 
surrounded by an army of venal satellites, who are 
fattening on the nation's treasury. 

The pence-loving record of Horace Greeley is 
more pleasing to all men of intelligence, than any 
one stained with human blood could be. 
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68. — The journals in the service of General Grant, 
say that the number of troops kept in the Southern 
States " to protect the loyal citizens," is so small 
that they can exert very little influence upon elec- 
tions. If this assertion be correct, it proves that 
the people of that section do not resist the Federal 
authorities; and that there is no more need of 
troops there, than there is in the Northern States. 

The millions expended to keep a military force in 
that part of the country, can be saved, when we 
have an administration at Washington which will 
allow the people of the South, black and white, to 
vote without coercion. 



69. — Chorpenning — Cresswell. To persons ac- 
quainted with the current history of the govern- 
ment, these names are sufficient' to show that there 
is no hope of any surcease of the plunder of the 
public treasury, but in the election of a President 
who will not tolerate such depredations as have 
been common under the present administration. 



TO. — In this country no political party will 
openly advocate the establishment of an empire on 
the ruins of our Republic ; but there are many who 
desire the titles and dignities, which emperors be- 
stow upon those wealthy and influential persons 
who support them. A journal, advocating impe- 
rialism, was published recently in New York, with- 
out an ostensible editor, or publisher. Its articles 
were carefully prepared, and plausible; consider- 
able expense was evidently incurred in getting it 
out ; and it was circulated gratuitously. 

Who did it; and what was it done for? 

It is manifest that those who oppose the arro- 
gant assumptions of power, which have made Gen- 



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eral Grant odious, did not circulate such a paper ; 
and it is equally certain that those who made huge 
fortunes by the war and events growing out of it, 
and who now assume aristocratic airs, support Gen- 
eral Grant; and evince no dislike of his invasions 
of the constitutional rights of citizens of the Re- 
public. 

The friends of Republican simplicity, and of 
economy and purity in the affairs of government, 
are the opponents of imperialism, and of General 
Grant. It is evident that they had nothing to do 
with t ho publication of" The Imperialist." 

The great millionaires of the country are Gen- 
eral (J rant's personal, as well as political friends ; 
and it will be well for unassuming people to insist 
upon knowing who published " The Imperialist." 

71. — Brains and honesty do more for the pros- 
perity and progress of a nation than bayonets and 
artillery. 

Plows, hoes, and spades are of much greater 
value than guns, drums, and trumpets. 



12 — It would be a lasting disgrace to the forty 
millions of the American people, to be conquered 
and held in servitude by General Grant and his 
armv of eighty thousand office-holders, ring-mana- 
gers and hangers-on. 

This battle" will not be fought by the people with 
military weapons; but forty millions, unarmed, 
should be sufficient to contend successfully with the 
political host of mercenaries, armed with the money 
of the Federal Treasury, and the few thousands of 
regular troops in the Southern States. Dollars will 
do more than muskets in this fight. 



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73. — The opponents of Horace Greeley admit 
that it is true, as has been asserted, that he has 
never expended a dollar which was not honestly 
earned. 

" Let the galled jade wince, 
Our withers are unwrung." 



74 — In those States in which the negroes are 
more numerous than the white people, where the 
State governments, the courts, and the Federal offi- 
ces are in the hands of the retainers of General 
Grant, and where a number of the white men are 
disfranchised, it is pretended that it is necessary to 
keep military possession, and disregard the rights 
of citizens, in order to protect the negroes. 

Is it not remarkable that the majority, with the 
civil power, cannot protect themselves from the 
aggressions of the minority, and that an army is 
needed to enable the many to resist the few ? 

The truth is that the military force is only needed 
to compel the negroes to vote as their masters in 
Washington, direct them to cast their suffrages. 

Without the help of bayonets General Grant 
would get very few votes in the South; and the real 
freedom of the emancipated slaves can only be 
secured by the election of a President who will re- 
spect the constitutional rights of all classes of 
citizens. 

75. — Interference in the political affairs of the 
Southern States by the administration at Washing- 
ton is as injurious to the negroes as it is to the 
white people. 

The Northern people are continually deceived 
with reports of outrages and cruelties committed 
upon negroes in the South ; but it is very remarka- 
ble that very few of the victims of this bad treat- 



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ment show a disposition to leave that section, and 
become citizens of States in which they will not be 
maltreated. It is probable that not one in a hun- 
dred of the emancipated slaves have emigrated to 
free States. 

Is it not manifest that they are not badly treated 
by their former masters, and that the stories of out- 
rages on account of political hostility are manufac- 
tured to subserve partisan purposes ? It is incredi- 
ble, when transportation is so easy, that men would 
stay where they are cruelly oppressed. 

It is time for the people of all parts of the Union 
to rebuke the knavish devices by which venal dema- 
gogues delude ignorant people. 



T6. — The most ignoble of the desires which actu- 
ate the conduct of men is avarice; and it must be 
most intense when it overcomes the natural ambition 
of those who have gained high positions to appear 
magnanimous and honorable in the eyes of the 
world. Milton speaks thus of its ideal: 

" Mammon ! 
The least erected spirit that fell from heaven. 
For even iti heaven his looks were always 
Downward bentj admiring more the riches 
Of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, than aught 
Divine, or holy else, enjoyed, 
In vision beatific." 

Ami Shakspeare expresses indignant contempt for 
an unworthy king in such language as this: 

" A cut-purse of the empire, and the rule, 
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole; 
And put it in his pocket." 

The great A merican Republic, founded by Washing- 
ton, Franklin, Hancock, Adams, Jefferson, and their 
compatriots, now having a population of over forty 
5* 



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millions, and occupying half a continent, has been 
filched from the people, and is in the possession of 
a combination of mercenary charlatans, who use it 
for the mere purpose of making much money out 
of it. 

It is time for us to elect to offices of dignity and 
authority; men who have aspirations above the pos- 
session of large piles of dirty dollars. 

No unclean coin has stained the hand of Horace 
Greeley. 

77. — The most efficient supporters of General 
Grant are renegades from the Democratic party, 
whose chief merit is to be found in the fact that 
they have followed an illustrious example. 

The ablest and most respected men of the Repub- 
lican party are now advocating the election of 
Horace Greeley. 

78. — The organs of General Grant's party admit 
the gross dishonesty of public officials, and the need 
of reform. They tell us that their men, who have 
notoriously been fattening on corruption for four 
years past, intend to effect reform in the civil ser- 
vice if they be allowed to continue in power. 

This is an admirable illustration of the old 
adage of " setting a rogue to catch a rogue ; " 
but sensible people will have more hope of a reform 
in public affairs from expelling the vermin who have 
been devouring the substance of the people, and 
placing in important offices men who, by a life of 
fair dealing, have gained a reputation for honesty. 



79. — A thousand newspapers, and myriads of. 
orators, and small fry talkers are enlisted in the 
work of persuading unthinking people to vote for 



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General Grant ; and yet all that they will 'print and 
suv in favor of their heroic candidate, may be con- 
centrated in one word — Appomatox 

On the part of the Liberal Republican candidate, 
some of the best phrases in our language may be 
used: "Intelligence, rectitude, a manly advocacy 
of liberal principles, good manners, respect for the 
supreme law, industry and peace," are some of the 
terms which will be used with propriety. 

80. — A large and influential part of the Repub- 
lican party, is now earnestly opposed to the re-elec- 
tion of General Grant; and } T et his organs every 
day assert that he will carry the election in No- 
vember. 

How can he do this ? 

How can a fragment of the Republican party 
defeat a union of Liberal Republicans, Democrats 
and Conservatives ? 

In military operations General Grant never 
gained a victory without a force much larger than 
that of bis opponent. 

In politics, however, things are sometimes man- 
aged differently, and skilful manipulators of ballot- 
boxes, eount votes to suit those who employ them. 

The opponents of military elections must not 
only vote against the office huckster's candidates, 
but they must see that their votes are fairly counted. 

The recent election in North Carolina has afforded 
much gratification to the supporters of General 
Grant-, for military men. who have not an exalted 
idea of his ability to command an army, can no 
longer say that he never gained a victory with an 
inferior force. 

81. — Office-hunting is the bane of society, and 



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should riojb be encouraged by making the emolu- 
ments of public positions rewards for partisan ser- 
vices. The pay of persons in the public service 
should be no more than is received for similar work 
in ordinal'}' business ; and no one should be paid for 
services performed by subordinates. 

There are many now holding places which have 
high salaries attached to them, who are incompe- 
tent, and depend upon those under them to do their 
work. 

We should have no sinecure offices ; and we can- 
not too soon reform worthless partisans out of the 
places they disgrace. 

We need a real reform in this matter; not a pre- 
tended one. 

82. — The dollars of the National Treasury will 
be the chief support of General Grant ; the sense of 
the people will sustain Horace Greeley. 



83. — The disgusting toadyism of the parasites of 
General Grant should receive the indignant rebuke 
of all intelligent citizens. In a recent speech, one 
of the orators, engaged in the arduous work of excus- 
ing the conduct of their master, associates the name 
of the latter with that of Washington, in the follow- 
ing manner: " When the Revolutionary war closed, 
the people asked what honor could be given to 
Washington ; and Congress made the office of Gen- 
eral, and made it a life office. But the war was over. 
There were no further military services for that 
great General, who had achieved the independence 

of his country, and he declined it 

The very office associated his [Grant's] name 
historically and legally, and for all time, with that 
of Washington, as the second saviour of his coun- 



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try, the second man for whom Congress had created 
the office of General." 

This statement is as erroneous as it is fulsome. 
The office offered to Washington was that of Lieu- 
tenant-General, the same grade now held b} r General 
Grant's subordinates; and held by him before the 
higher title of General, was given him by the leaders 
of his party in Congress. 

Washington very properly declined the rank of 
Lieu/r mi nl-Gem'.ral, because it was a royal title, 
which previously had only been conferred upon a 
brother of a king of France, who under that title 
ruled the kingdom. General Grant, and his super- 
serviceable toadies, have no objection to regal rank 
and titles. 

Washington declined the honor proffered by Con- 
gress, General Grant readily accepted that, and a 
higher one. 

These incidents show the difference in character 
between the first and the laxt President. 



84. — If any one yet has prejudices in favor of 
military government, he need but review the later 
years of French history, to perceive the fearful 
troubles which an emperor, bent on grand military 
operations, may bring upon a nation; and on the 
other hand, to see how wonderfully an energetic 
people may recover from disaster, under a consti- 
tutional Republic, with a wise statesman at its 
head. 

In a document recently issued by the Democratic 
Representatives of France, we find the following 
language : 

" Where was France a year ago, and where is she 
now? 

" One year ago what a sad spectacle ! All around 



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us the ruins of the foreign and the civil war. The 
stranger still in possession of one-third of France; 
over our heads the immense war ransom — that 
enormous sum which, it seemed, we would never he 
able to pay; throughout the country and in the 
National Assembl} 7 factions, quarrelling among 
themselves, but united in their menacing attitude 
toward the Republic — the Republic which, born in 
pain, was tolerated rather than recognized, almost 
crushed as it was by the inheritance of the blunders 
and crimes of the Empire. 

"And to-day what do we see? The centre and 
the north of France evacuated by the strangers ; 
those of our eastern departments which were not 
taken from the mother country looking for speedy 
deliverance; the payment of the colossal war debt 
covered by the zealous co-operation of all Europe : 
the credit of France rising in an unprecedented 
manner; labor developing in town and country 
with fresh vigor; the tactions reduced to impotent 
inactivity ; the Republic strengthened and defended 
more and more decidedly by the government, which 
has received and faithfully guarded the Constitu- 
tion." 

Imperialism placed France at the foot of a con- 
queror, and destroyed her resources ; but the wis- 
dom and prudence of a civil magistrate, without 
violating constitutional rights, have within a year 
so far restored the nation's prosperity, that France 
can borrow- immense sums of money at a more 
moderate rate than is paid by the United States; 
although our country has not been invaded by a 
foreign army for more than half a century. 



" Let them be judged out of their own mouths." 

85. — South Carolina has a large majority of 



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colored citizens : and Republican carpet-baggers 
have had complete control in that State since°the 
war. 

The condition of things in the unfortunate com- 
monwealth, under the rule of General Grant's pro- 
teges, may be judged from the subjoined extract 
from a recent article in one of the leading journals 
in the service of the administration: 

" South Carolina presents the most disgraceful 
political picture in the country. The stealings of 
its officers have been greater in proportion than 
those of Tammany, and unlike these last, publicly 
and in contempt of the outraged and powerless tax- 
payers, Robert K. Scott, Governor; D. II. Cham- 
berlain, Attorney General; Neagle, Comptroller, 
and Parker, Treasurer, have been more audacious 
than even Tweed, Sweeney, and Connolly. The 
Legislature has been repeatedly purchased by these 
men ; they have speculated with the funds of the 
Stale; gained control of its valuable franchises in 
railroads, and fastened upon it a debt that, with 
the highest limit of taxation, cannot be extin- 
guished in a hundred years. No show of secrecy 
has been made in any of those transactions, and 
they have been accompanied by social crimes that 
have made Columbia as corrupt as. ever Sodom and 
Gomorrah possibly were." 

Will the American people longer tolerate an ad- 
ministration, whose servants are guilty of such 
crimes: and which now proposes to reform the 
affairs of South Carolina, by electing another set 
of its parasites to depredate upon the oppressed 
people ? 

86.— The toadies of General Grant are every day 
telling us that he is "the saviour of the country ; " 



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and assuring the people, if there had not been just 
such a General in America, that we should have 
been "gone to the bow-wows," without any hope of 
redemption. 

Horace Greeley, long before General Grant was 
known to the American people, saw that Negro 
Slavery was like to be an element of danger to the 
country; and fie became an earnest advocate of its 
abolition ; but he did not intend that the freedom of 
the white people should be sacrificed, and a centra- 
lized dispotism established, in order to secure the 
liberation of the negroes. He wished to see Black 
and White enjoying the same liberty; and he knew 
that to accomplish this we must preserve the Con- 
stitution ; which was the bond of Union, and the 
safeguard of the rights of States and of indi- 
viduals. 

Had his advice been respected, the cause of irri- 
tation between the North and the South might have 
been removed; without injustice to the people of 
the South, and without ,\var; and the consequent 
sacrifice of so many hundreds of thousands of lives. 

If the secession of the first of the Southern States 
which declared itself out of the Union, had been met 
in a philosophic spirit; and the people of the South 
had been told that they might "go in peace," if the 
Union were of no benefit to them, others would not 
have followed the lead of South Carolina ; and for 
a fair consideration, would have consented to the 
emancipation of the slaves, under circumstances 
much more favorable to them, than their sudden 
liberation as a war measure. 

The expense would not have been a third part of 
what the war cost; and constitutional freedom foi 
all would have been preserved. 

Mr. Greeley's advice was not followed, because 



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shoddy patriots, and aspirants to military honors, 
thought that "war could be made to pay hand- 
somely." They made fortunes; and the soil of the 
Southern States was crimsoned with the blood of 
the people. 

87. — It is desirable that there should be a thor- 
ough investigation of the condition of the National 
Treasury, by persons who will not palliate the mal- 
feasance of officials. 

Hundreds of millions of dollars every year pass 
through the hands of those employed in this depart- 
ment of the government; and since the institution 
of the green-back currency, and the issue of thou- 
sands of millions of bonds, there has been no satis- 
factory overhauling of the concern ; and no good 
reason can be given why the people should not 
know its real condition. 

Large fortunes have been made by persons con- 
nected willi it ; and some of them have expended 
money in an extravagant manner. The New York 
Custom House is known to be a den of thieves; and 
all efforts to investigate the conduct of officials 
under General Grant's administration, have been 
smothered by " white-washing committees." 

A searching inquiry will not injure any honest 
man; and Horace Greeley is a very proper person to 
institute it; and to see'that the dark places in the 
Treasury Department be exposed to broad daylight. 



88. Thomas Jefferson indicated the qualifica- 
tions most desirable in a candidate for public office, 
by three questions. 

1. Is he honest? 

2. Is he capable? 

3. Is he a friend of the Constitution ? 



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Intelligent citizens, when they try the Presidential 
candidates by this test, will easily perceive how 
their votes shall be cast. 



89. — Horace Greeley owes none of his well 
earned reputation to public office; nor to rank, title, 
nor favor conferred by Government. 

It is one of the great evils of the time, that im- 
portant* positions, wealth and power, are often se- 
cured by the presumptuous and assuming ; who 
lack merit and integrity. 

When marks of public honor are conferred upon 
persons of unobtrusive usefulness, virtuous effort is 
encouraged; but when the} 7 are given to the profli- 
gate and unworthy, honest worth is discouraged; 
the incentive to good conduct is weakened; and no 
real benefit is gained by those for whose advantage 
the marks of merit are prostituted : 

" What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? 
Alas, not all the blood of all the Howards." 



90. — It is wise for a community to give encour- 
agement to those occupations and professions which 
are most beneficial to the country generally; and to 
offer no inducement to those from which the people 
have no advantage. Productive industry, scientific 
investigation, mechanical invention, and moral and 
intellectual culture, do most to advance the pros- 
perity of a nation ; while litigation and military 
operations, are onty wasteful and destructive. But 
the prominence which lawyers, politicians by trade, 
and generals, gain among men in more useful em- 
ployments, attracts to these professions ambitious 
and spirited young men; who contemn unobtrusive 
labor. 

Lawyers, politicians, and generals have destroyed 



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all the Republics which have yet existed; and will 
destroy ours, if we do not drive them from the of- 
fices which they have misused. 

Of those who have filled the Presidential chair, 
thirteen were lawyers, two, Washington and Jack- 
son, were farmers; one was clerk of a county court; 
and two were generals. 

It will be well, for once, to elect an editor. 



91. — Horace Greeley finds pleasure in impart- 
ing the knowledge he has gained to his fellow men. 
Notwithstanding the exacting duties of his position, 
as editor of a daily paper, in the chief centre of 
business of this country, he has delivered many 
lectures upon scientific, literary and politico-econo- 
mic subjects. 

General Grant does not indulge in oratorical 
recreations; his chief pleasures appear to be fast 
horses, foreign cigars, and . 



92. — The more intelligent men of the Republican 
party support the Cincinnati Ticket; while all who 
have bruins enough to see the imperative need of 
measures of reform, to re-establish civil liberty, de- 
sire its success. 

When men of ability were needed to present our 
claim for damages to the Geneva Arbitration, the 
administration had to go outside of its party lines 
to find them. 

93. — If the expenses of the General Government 
were reduced, as they might be, without injury to 
Hi.- public service; and if the revenue from duties 
on imports were honestly collected, there would be 
no necessity for any internal taxation ; and the 
many annoyances and inconveniences, which it 



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causes, could be ended. While the people are 
amused with discussions and arguments bj' free- 
traders, and protectionists, the crafty agents of 
European manufacturers, and the importers of their 
fabrics, in collusion with Custom House officials, 
are evading a large part of the duties, and deceiv- 
ing the public with regard to the value of the mer- 
chandise imported, and consequently the annual 
balance of trade against us. 

If the country could once get rid of the large 
army of harpies, who make a trade of huckstering 
offices, and feeding at the expense of the govern- 
ment, many serious and alarming evils might be 
prevented. 

A faithful administration of the affairs of the 
Treasury Department, would lake hea\'3< burthens 
from the shoulders of the too patient people. 



94. — The efforts of General Grant's toadies to 
ridicule Horace Greele} r show contempt of the most 
honest occupations of the people. Mr. Greeley's 
business has been that of a printer and editor; and 
if he can find recreation in wood chopping, planting 
potatoes and apple trees, feeding pigs and cows, 
and other farming work, he exhibits much better 
taste than do those who find their chief enjoyment 
in cigars, wine and whiskey. 

It is easy for popinja3 r s in the glory of military 
tinsel, to laugh at the homely gratifications of. 
worthy men ; but their jibes and sneers deserve re- 
buke from all sensible people. 

95. — Horace Greeley has never exhibited a de- 
sire to command large bodies of his fellow men ; 
nor admiration of the 

" Pomp, pride and circumstance 
Of glorious war." 



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The improving, refining and humanizing influ- 
ences of peace, are more congenial to him, than the 
sanguinary scenes of war, and the pride of authority. 

General Grant loves the power which military 
command has given him ; and the cringing syco- 
phancy, which superserviceable subordinates pay 
to men in high positions. 

In a time of civil war he was fortunate enough 
to have large armies under his control; and since 
hostility to the government has ceased, he enjo}*s 
the gratification of commanding a vast army of pa- 
rasites, paupers, and leeches, who are subsisted at 
the expense of the people. 

He would like to retain this command for four 
years longer; and then, perhaps, for yet another 
term. 

Sensible people will choose between the man of 
war and the man of peace. 



90. — In ancient Rome, Tribunes were established 
to proteel the people from oppression by the mili- 
tary patricians who ruled them; and while the people 
were jealous of their rights, and resolute in main- 
taining them, their liberties were safe; but when 
wealth and luxury enervated them, admiration of 
military conquerors absorbed their minds, and civil 
wars debased them, they were overwhelmed by im- 
perial despotism, and their liberties were lost. After 
man} centuries of subjection to heartless tyranny, 
a noble Roman urged them again to assert their 
rights, mid re-estahlish the Tribunes. For a little 
time they resisted their insolent masters, and showed 
a desire for freedom ; but the result proved that 
they led not the manly vigor needed to preserve 
their suddenly acquired liberty, and they sunk un- 
der hopeless despotism. 



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Our country is in the same danger now. Ener- 
vating Luxury is enfeebling the people; and a mor- 
bid love of the trappings and shows of military 
display, has debauched many among us, to such an 
extent that they prefer the magnificence of a strong 
government, to the noble gratifications of rational 
liberty. 

Again the people are appealed to, and asked to 
establish 

"Two Tribunes of the people;" L 

and the result will show how much of manly virtue 
is in their hearts. 

97. The principles of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence are regarded by the American people as 
the fundamental doctrines of free government, and 
as applicable to all people; but the faction which 
supports General Grant, while claiming to be the 
Republican party, repudiates those principles, and 
denounces those who support them. 

One of the most ardent of the journals in the 
pay of General Grant recently quoted a passage 
from an article written by Horace Greeley, to prove 
that he was a secessionist, not being aware that the 
language to which it objected, was part of our vene- 
rated Declaration of Independence. 

It is because Horace Greeley sustains the prin- 
ciples enunciated in that great historic document, 
that he will be elected President of the United 
States; and it is because General Grant and his 
servile mercenaries oppose those principles, that 
they will be dismissed from office. 

93. If the people reward with extravagant 

honors, authority, power and emoluments, the men 
who become conspicuous in civil war, they must ex- 



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pect that unscrupulous persons in public positions 
will provoke war, for the purpose of gaining such 
things by that means. 

Intelligent men should remember that one of the 
incidents of our recent conflict was the introduction 
of the imperial conscription, which gives the Fede- 
ral authorities the power to compel every citizen to 
bear arms and risk his life, no matter what may be 
his conscientious scruples, with regard to shedding 
blood ; nor what may be his views with regard to the 
justice of the cause in which he is compelled to 
fight. There is no warrant in the Constitution for 
the conscription, and under it the people endure 
the most absolute slavery which can be imagined. 
In our country there is no excuse for it. Men are 
sufficiently fond of lighting when they have an ex- 
cuse for it ; and there will never be a lack of volun- 
teers in a just war. 

We can imagine nothing more horrible than to 
compel a man to kill others, and perhaps lose his 
own life, when he does not believe that he is en- 
gaged in a just cause. In civil wars there are al- 
ways different opinions, concerning the propriety 
of the strife; and some persons do not believe that 
wholesale slaughter, and the devastation of pro- 
perty, are warranted under any circumstances. 

It is peace, liberal and just laws, and the culti- 
vation of industrial arts, and scientific knowledge, 
which have made the true grandeur of our Repub- 
lic ; and intelligent men cannot fail to see the im- 
portance of placing a man of peace and humane 
feeling, at the head of the government. 



90. Teie time and attention of those who now 

manage public affairs, are absorbed in their schemes 
to retain power, and enrich themselves and friends ; 



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and the interests of the people are so much neg- 
lected, that combinations, and corporations of crafty 
men are allowed to secure exclusive privileges, and 
to compel the people to pay exorbitant prices for 
articles required for the comfort of their homes. 
Much of the food consumed in the more populous 
portions of the country is carried considerable dis- 
tances ; and it is estimated that forty per cent, of 
the cost to those who use it, goes into the pockets 
of middle men. The anthracite coal mines, and the 
railroads which carry the fuel from them, are mono- 
polized by corporations whose capital is chiefly 
owned in England, and the American people are 
compelled to pay extravagant prices for the coal 
which warms their dwellings and cooks their food. 

Comparatively, the wages of workingmen in this 
country are high ; but very few of them can accu- 
mulate anything, if they make provision for the 
comfortable support of a family, although immense 
wealth is produced by their labor. 

There is need of statesmanship in the direction 
of our affairs, for the glorification of men in epau- 
lettes will never improve the condition of those 
who work in useful occupations. The sooner we 
get men who have brains enough to understand 
what measures are needed to promote the prosperity 
of the country; and moral vigor enough to procure 
their enactment, the better it will be for us. 

The sooner we dismiss General Grant's " military 
household, " the better will be the prospect for 
reform in the most important business of the 
nation. 

100. — There is no substantial reason for distrust- 
ing the candor of the Southern people, in accepting 
the candidates of the Liberal Republicans, They 
have everything to gain, and nothing to lose by the 



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establishment of the principles of the Cincinnati 
platform. They have no longer to bear the odium 
of an institution which is disliked by the whole 
civilized world ; their impoverished people and 
devastated fields need recuperation ; they desire a 
return of real peace and prosperity, which the re- 
moval of Generrl Grant's bayonets and carpet-bag- 
gers will give them ; and they know that the aboli- 
tion of slavery has permanently increased the value 
of cotton. 

The removal of the annoyances, embarrassments, 
and irritations caused by Federal interference, will 
give an impetus to industry, and improve the busi- 
ness of the whole country. 

The great cause of prejudice and quarrel having 
ceased, we may now have a genuine — 

" Union of lakes, a union of lands ; 
A union of States, none shall sever; 
A union of hearts, a union of hands; 
And the flag of our Union forever." 



CONCLUSION. 



In former years, when the emoluments of office 
and the amount of money and property handled by 
the General Government were comparatively small, 
the far-seeing statesmen of our country warned the 
people of the danger to be apprehended from the 
desire of a person elected to the Presidency, and 
those enjoying his patronage, to retain the power 
entrusted to them. 

The immense development of resources and the 
great increase of wealth, which have resulted from 
the enterprise and industry of the people, and the 
expansion of our territory, have been attended by a 
corresponding augmentation of the number of 
offices, the amount of remuneration, and the facili- 
ties for gaining fortunes by indirect and furtive 
means. What was feared in former times, has become 
a formidable reality. The many thousands of lucra- 
tive positions held by unscrupulous men ; and the 
large sums manipulated by those who manage the 
work of the government, have created a powerful 
administration army, which impudently assumes to 
be the people ; and with the aid of moie than a thou- 
sand mercenary journals, denounces as disloyal and 
unpatriotic, all who have the manliness to oppose it. 

It has become sufficiently apparent that the 
chief remedy for this perversion of the power and 
means of the nation, is an alteration of the Consti- 
tution which will restrict the administration of one 
person to a single term ; but the emergency is 
alarming, and the time needed to effect a change in 

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the Constitution is too long, to permit the people 
promptly to correct the impending danger to the 
Republic by this means. 

Under these circumstances, the ablest and best 
men of the country, of all political parties and 
opinions, have thrown off the trammels of party; 
and united in an effort to -enlist the unlawful and 
despotic movements of the men in power, to sub- 
vert the Republic; and by the misuse of the author- 
ity and means in their hands, to continue their rule, 
in defiance of the organic law of the nation, and the 
rights and interests of the people. 

Our free Institutions no longer protect the rights 
of citizens opposed to the dominant faction. We 
are under the power of a self-constituted oligarchy; 
which is using the army and navy, official influence, 
the machinery of the post office, and the treasures 
of the nation, to delude, corrupt and coerce the 
jMM.pl, • into submission to their authority, and the 
perpel nation of their rule. 

If they succeed in defeating the people in this 
struggle, at every succeeding election, their power 
will grow stronger; while that of the Oppressed Citi- 
zens will be Weakened. 

Lei no one be dr. -rive.] by names. Under the 
name of republic the most terrible tyrannies have 
existed. Rome yet had the name of republic when 
Nero and Caligula ruled it; and under the name of 
republic tin- mosl horrible despotism of later times, 
the •' Council of Ten," scourged the unhappy people 
of Venice. 

This contest will determine whether there beinde- 
pendence, intelligence and virtue in the American 
people, sufficient to enable them to preserve the 
rights and franchises <>!' citizens of a constitutional 
republic, or if they be so degraded by the ener- 
vating- luxuries and fashions of the times, as to be 



unable to resist the power of the crafty combination 
of charlatans, which is laboring to plant an irre- 
sponsible oligarchy upon the ruins of the Federal 
Constitution. 

The integrity of the man nominated for President 
b}^ the liberal and conservative men of the country, 
is conceded by his opponents ; his intelligence will ' 
not be doubted by any who are acquainted with the 
political and journalistic history of this country for 
the last thirty years; and his faithfulness to the 
Constitution is attested by his willingness to sacri- 
fice political associations in an effort to restore its 
vitality, after civil war had rendered it inert. 

It remains for the people to say whether they will 
make a vigorous and resolute effort to redeem the 
" Supreme law of the land," andlive under the best 
Constitution ever devised by the wisdom of man, or 
succumb to the arts and arrogance of an organiza- 
tion of political hucksters, who trade and traffic in 
the affairs of government ; and sell the people's 
rights and the nation's honor for sordid dollars. 



THE END. 



One Hundred Reasons 



WHY 




SHOULD BE ELECTED 



PRESIDENT OF IE UNITED Sll 



WHICH WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO 

inmci i;vi;i:v si;\sii:i,i: and iioaest man 

TO VOTE Fill! HIM, 



An honaft niiin's the noblest work of God; 



PUBLISHED 

THE AUTHOR, J. C. THOMPSON, 

No. 314} .'. Walnut Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 



JTXST PUBLISHED. 



ONE HUNDRED REASONS 



WHY 



GENERAL GRANT 



SHOULD NOT BE RE-ELECTED 



President of the United States. 



13Y 

J. 0. THOMPSON, 

314J Walnut Street, 



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